Motor-vehicle.



(Application filed June 22, 1901.)

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No; 693,!02. Patentedeb. H, |92.

W.V BOWKER, SR.

MOTOR VEHICLE.

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Mimo -wv @mio a VILLIAH BOWKER, SR., OF XVALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

--INIOTOR-VEHICLE.

SPECIFCATIUN forming part of Letters Patent No. 693,102, dated February 11, 1902.

Application filed .Tune 22,1901. Serial No. 65.580. (No model.)

To @ZZ 1071/0711, t may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM BOWKER, Sr., a citizen of the Unit-ed States, residing at Waltham, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Motor-Vehicles, of which the following is a specication.v

My invention relates particularly to motorvehicles which carry storage batteries and electric motors.

The main object of the invention is to provide a construction in which the battery platform or support will be supported entirely independent from the vehicle-bod y, or, more definitely stated, to support the body and the battery platform or box upon separate sets of springs. These objects are accomplished by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a motor-vehicle provided with myimprovements. Fig. 2 is a rear end View thereof with the tail or end gate removed, and Fig. 3 is a perspective of the means for supporting the battery box or platform and the vehicle-bod y.

A designates the vehicle-body of any de-v sired shape, but in the present case comprising parallel sides A', connected at the front by the inclined curved dash A3 and cut down adjacent thereto, as at A2. Between the sides is arranged the double back-to-back seat A4, in front of which is the footplatform A5, (shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1,) while the rear end of the body is provided with a tailgate which forms a foot-rest for the occupants of the rear seat when let down and held by the hook c. y

B designates a yoke-like frame, with its curved front end B supporting the front portion A3 of the body and its parallel rearwardly-extending members B2 offset downwardly, as at b, and extending beneath the sides A of the body. These rearwardly-proj ectin g members of the frame B are each provided with two upwardly-proj ecting lugs b' b', each having an in wardly-extending apertu red ear b2, while between each pair of lugs b o is a third or T-shaped lug b3. To the lugs b3 are iirmly secured by clips cl the middle portions of the longitudinally-extending bodysupporting springs D D, the front and rear ends of which are shackled, as at d, to the v sides A' of the body A. To opposed ears b2 b2 are shackled, as at e e, the downwardlyextending ends of the transverse batterysupporting springs E E. F designates the battery support or platform, secured, as at f,

to the middle of both springs E and lying concealed directly under the seat A4. (See Figs. l and 2, where F designates the batteries.)

It will be seen from the above that the vehicle-body will have an easy motion and not be affected by the movements of the heavy batteries, and so the comfort of the occupants will be greatly increased.

L indicates the rear aXle,to which the framearms Bzare secured, and L designates the rear wheels. 4

The propelling and steering means may be of any desired kind; but I have shown a single driving and steering wheel C, mounted in a horizontally-turning frame G, which also carries an electric motor geared to the wheel, and this frame is turned for steering purposes by the steering-shaft K. This mechanism C G K forms no part of the present invention, as it forms the subject-matter of another application ilcd of even date herewith, and it will not therefore be further described.`

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent is* Y l? The combination with the vehicle-body, the rear axle and parallel side barssecured near their rear ends to said axle, of parallel longitudinal springs secured at their middles to the said side bars under and secured to the sides of the body, transverse springs secured at their ends to said side bars at opposite sides of the axle and a platform or box carried by said transverse springs within the sides of the vehicle-body.

2. The combination with a rear axle, the parallel side bars secured thereto and each having threelugs, longitudinal body-supporting springs secured at their middles to the middle lugs, and transverse battery-supporting springs secured at their ends to the other lugs.

3. The combination with the yokelike frame, and the rear axle secured to the rear ends thereof, of the longitudinal springs secured at theirmiddles to said side bars and IOO su pportin g the vehicle-bod y at theirends, the transverse springs secured at their ends to the side bars in front and rear of the axle and a battery box or support mounted on top of said transverse springs.

4. The combination with a vehicle-body having parallel sides, of a yoke-like frame secured at its front under the front of the body, offset downwardly and having the side bars extended rearwardly under the sides of the body, the rear wheel-carrying axle secured to said rearwardly-extending side bars, longitudinal springs secured at their ends to the bodyv and at their middles to the said side bars, transverse bowed springs shaekled at their ends to said side bars and a battery-snpport mounted on said transverse springs within the body.

5. The yoke-like frame downwardly oset between its ends, and provided at the rear end of each of the side bars with three spring- 'attachinglugsg the middle lugs being adapted WILLIAM BOWKER, SENR.

Witnesses:

Jos. H. BLACKWOOD, GEO. H. EVANS. 

